Sarah Weiger

English, Associate Professor

Environmental Studies

Sarah Weiger

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Phone:
503.943.7363

Address:
Dundon-Berchtold Hall 103

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About

Dr. Weiger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Portland, where she teaches and studies nineteenth-century British literature and environmental literature. She holds a dual appointment in the department of Environmental Studies. Her courses include ENG 112: Thinking Through Literature (Weather and Climate), ENG 363: Environmental Literature, and ENG 403: Literature and Posthumanism. She also teaches British literature survey courses from the nineteenth century to the present, featuring writing of the Romantic period. Her recent conference presentations have been on the natural history writing of Henry David Thoreau and on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross. She earned her PhD at Cornell University and her BA at the University of Michigan. View her publications.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan